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16 Nov
2004
16 Nov
'04
13:35
I find the drives run very very hot. (I've actually burned my finger touching one!). I insist on putting a fan on each one. The temperatures sink dramatically (cool when touched, notice my empirical methods here?).
I think this helps but... It's not been 3 years yet... So I really can't say. What I can say is this with 10 or so drives, and in over 1.5 years, I've yet to loose one with a fan on it.
In my experience all the new drives run very hot, really anything 80GB or larger. These days I always install a fan either blowing across the drive or use an attached heatsink/fan unit. I haven't had any reliability problems with the 80GB drives. I haven't run the larger drives long enough to tell yet. Jeff